Film 2386 - Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios

Intro: And so it begins: the long list of movies I've been watching with Yegor since we started dating.

Film 2386: "Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios" (1988), Pedro Almodóvar
Watched on: Yegor's TV
Language: Spanish
Watched with: Yegor
Thoughts: Always wanted to watch this one being a big fan of Almodóvar's filmography. And he didn't disappoint.
To be fair, I didn't expect this to be such a surreal story, for whatever reason I expected it to be more grounded in realy. It really didn't matter, once I understood the rule of the game it was a really fun watch.
I really do think Carmen Maura here steals the show, she's magnetic all the way through it, giving an enchanting performance that frankly should have been nominated for an Academy Award (but back in the 80s it wasn't really a thing to reward foreign actors with a nomination, it was extremely rare). She is the whole movie.
Overall, great cast, the story is funny and absurd - but in a way that makes sense - and Almodóvar does a great job at introducing himself the the whole world (this was his first global success). And from here, the rest is history.
Cast: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Mánver, Guillermo Montesinos, Fernando Guillén.
Box Office: $7,305,816
Worth a watch?: Great movie, a must-see if you enjoy Pedro Almodóvar's movies. Carmen Maura gives a fantastic performance and it's nice to see Antonio Banderas act in Spanish. Rossy de Palma has a smaller role, but you won't forget her.
Fans of Spanish cinema, this is definitely a movie worth watching.
Awards: Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes. Winner for the Best Foreign Director at the David di Donatello Awards (also nominated for Best Foreign Film and Foreign Screenplay) and in competition for the Golden Lion at the 1988 Venice Film Festival, where the movie won for Best Actress (Maura) and Best Screenplay (Almodóvar).
Key word: Iván.
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Film 2385 - Lilo & Stitch

Intro: Luckily this wasn't picked as the first movie Yegor and I went to see together.

Film 2385: "Lilo & Stitch" (2025), Dean Fleischer Camp
Watched on: At the movies
Language: English
Watched with: Niamh, Debbi
Thoughts: One of the worst movies I've seen this year so far, possibly the worst. We'll see what happens in the upcoming months, in the meantime "Lilo & Stitch", Disney's latest live-action remake/cash grab, is bad. B-A-D.
Firstly I want to say that I'm a big fan of the original, one of my favourite Disney movies. I still cherish the memory of when I went to see it at the movies. So clearly being the OG "Lilo & Stitch" a film that I really like, I had high expectations. Or, to better put it: I had very low expectations, but in my head I was hoping they would have treated this story with more respect.
There's nothing magical about the remake, all the fantasy is gone and this is just the carbon copy of the animated movie from 2002. Considering that that film made $273.1 million at the box-office and seen this live-action made a billion dollars, I understand why this was made and where a product like this lies. What saddens me, though, is that Disney doesn't even try anymore. At least at the beginning they did.
So, apart from being the frame-by-frame copy of the original, there's really not much here to see. Obviously this "Lilo & Stitch" is aimed at a young audience, to (re)introduce the characters and make even more money from the merchandise. We all know the name of the game, whatever. It's just extremely disappointing that the legacy of a movie like the first "Lilo & Stitch", a product full of imagination and stunning visual elements, is reduced to this CGI'd copycat with no soul or anything to say.
Cast: Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Chris Sanders, Courtney B. Vance, Zach Galifianakis, Maia Kealoha.
Box Office: $1.034 billion
Worth a watch?: It's trash. The pace of the movie is insane, so fast you can barely sit on anything that is said or showed to you. No time to focus, process, think: we're fed this content, whether we want it or not, with the sole purpose of remembering how cute Stich is (so that kids by more merch). Even for a Disney+ original movie (which this was intended to be), this would be bad.
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Key word: Ohana.
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